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Yachnes, E. (1976). Discussion of “The Psychodynamics of Aggression in Women”. Am. J. Psychoanal., 36:207-209.

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(1976). American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 36:207-209

Discussion of “The Psychodynamics of Aggression in Women”

Eleanor Yachnes, M.D. Author Information

The title of this talk, “The Psychodynamics of Aggression in Women,” prompted some fantasies in me. Some of these were pleasurable, some defensive and hostile. Some memory bits came back concerning how women's activity, creativity, ideas, and also aggressiveness have been reacted to in the big world and also in the analytic world. There has been a lot of negativity, from the downgrading of Eve for acting on her healthy curiosity and thus presumably bringing about the banishment from Eden, to the resistance against women getting into the professions and other exclusive areas of work, to the overt and covert prohibitions against women enjoying the scientific apple, or the intellectual apple or even the sensual apple. I thought briefly about the Freudian conclusions that because of a fatal flaw in anatomy, women must be forever envious and inferior, and that out of this derives their jealousy, devious aggressiveness, lack of moral fiber, and passivity.

But, knowing what Dr.

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